Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced Tuesday that the government would be allocating an additional billion euros to beef up its security forces throughout the country.

Renzi’s announcement came just two weeks before the opening of the Jubilee Year of Mercy called for by Pope Francis, which is expected to draw millions of pilgrims to Rome.

The Prime Minister spelled out a series of measures to meet the new security requirements, including an investment of 150 million Euros for cybersecurity and another 50 million euro to upgrade police equipment, as well as five hundred million euro allotted for areas of strategic military defense.

He also announced an 80-euro bonus for all police and security employees.

Speaking from Rome’s City Hall, Renzi said that ISIS would not succeed in cowing the Italian people.

“We will not change our way of life, nor resign ourselves to terror, nor surrender before them,” he said.

To emphasize his point, the Prime Minister said that the government would be matching the outlays for increased security with a similar uptick in spending on culture, to show the Islamists that Italy is still Italy.

“What happened in Paris marked a qualitative leap in the cultural battle that we are living,” Renzi said.